Bill Brock’s supernatural thriller, The Dress, is selected as one of the Top 5 screenplays submitted to the 2018 Los Angeles Lift-Off Film Festival.
As a result, his script will be promoted across the Lift-Off Community platform, featured in the Lift-Off newsletter, which is sent to 35,000 filmmakers and shared across social media.
Congratulations to Renata Manzo-Scruggs for her screenplay “The Displaced” – an Official Selection of the 2018 Richmond Film Festival!
Congratulations to Caroline Hoover for scoring in the Top 50 of the 2017 Launch Pad Feature Competition for her gritty drama, The Trip. The top 25 will be announced the week of February 18, so we’re looking for more good news to come.
Way to go!
Bill Brock’s The Dress has just won Gold in the Thriller category at the Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest. Bill is scheduled to have a table read of his screenplay at our February 17th meeting.
A big congratulations to Caroline Hoover for taking first place at the Virginia Film Festival screenwriting competition for The Trip. So proud to have her on our championship roster.
Hosted by the University of Virginia, the Virginia Film Festival takes place each fall at venues throughout Charlottesville. Over 70 films will be screened and more than 80 guest artists and speakers are expected to participate. The Festival presents a rich array of panel discussions addressing both high and low budget filmmaking.
Film students from major Virginia colleges and universities will compete for top prizes at the College Short Film Awards, hosted by Poe Film Festival at the historic Grace Street Theater on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University, 934 West Grace Street, Richmond, on Saturday, November 4, 2017. Doors open at noon.
Twenty colleges with highly regarded film studies programs throughout the Commonwealth have been invited to compete in the five-hour event, during which their students’ short movies will be shown, discussed and honored at a red carpet awards ceremony.
Tickets may be purchased online for $10 at www.showclix.com after October 16. Seating is limited to 225 ticket holders. Look for information updates on www.poefilmfestival.com.
Our very own Michael Mcleod took part in The Adrenaline Film Project presented by The Virginia Film Festival. After three long days at the 72-Hour Film Project, his group won the Jury Prize at the premiere of the films. Michael works as an actor and contributing writer on their project. More info: Charlottesville Tomorrow
Terry Gau’s screenplay, Pines of Rome just made finalist for the South Carolina Underground Film Festival. Bill Brock’s also has two screenplays that are finalists at this festival, Life of Bradley (Best Feature) & “I’ll Have Another…” (Best Short).
Congratulations to Brian Weakland. His script, Franz Kafka, Golf Pro is an official selection at the Atlanta Comedy Film Festival. Way to go, Brian!!
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The VSF was proud to host Director, Jesse Vaughan at Saturday’s meeting. Mr. Vaughan provided entertaining and knowledgeable insight on his long career working in the entertainment field.
His most current feature length film is The Last Punch which was shown at this year’s Richmond International Film Festival…logline: A hustler turned boxing promoter used his street smarts to navigate the 1980s fight game. On the run from the FBI, he pulled off Muhammad Ali’s final fight.
Mr. Vaughan has been nominated for 36 EMMY Awards during his career for which he has garnished 21.